What We’re Watching

Marcus Nolan argues the ongoing crisis of food insecurity in North Korea must be seen as a complex humanitarian emergency. Data from July 2023 shows that food availability is at its worst since the country’s famine in the 1990s. Despite evidence of this crisis, the North Korean government has continued to invest in its military to the detriment of its population.

Marcus Nolan is the vice president and director of studies at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. The presentation begins at 3:40.

The Director of Global Risk at the Federation of American Scientists, Jon Wolfsthal, explains what a nuclear test means and why North Korea would conduct one.